Elizabethan Era Quotes

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

I have always been a huge fan of Shakespeare.

I am rather partial to Shakespeare, though I haven't done loads. But when it's done right, there's nothing like it. There are layers upon layers upon layers, and you unpack new things constantly. I don't know how he knew so many things - about the world, about women, about human nature, life, death, our fears and hopes.

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

Now, when I talk about Shakespeare, I can't talk too much about Gielgud or Olivier. Because nobody knows who I'm talking about.

I hear Shakespeare, sometimes, the way other people might hear God or Marx or something. But he's so different from that.

Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.

As an audience, if you see 1800s or something, it more often seems that the actors are carrying the weight of the time. It always has a Shakespearean tone to it. To me, that always feels very theatrical and very unrelatable.

Shakespeare is undoubtedly the greatest dramatist the world has known, and 95 countries translate his work into their languages.

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.

It's an old Elizabethan idea. The fool is the only one who is allowed to make fun of the king because he is a fool. I can say whatever I want about anybody else because I'm just an idiot talking - I'm not insisting that I'm any smarter than anyone else. It's satire.

'Shakespeare in Love' was a particularly happy film.

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.

England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.

William Shakespeare sounds to me like some kind of faggot.

She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.

'Hamlet' was the first movie I saw. In 1948, my mother said, 'I'm going to take you to see 'Hamlet' with Laurence Olivier.' She was worried about taking me to it because she wasn't sure I was old enough to understand it or to maybe be adversely affected by it, but I got recordings of it and memorized all the soliloquies.

'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.